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I have removed the cleanup tag on this article, after a couple of edits by myself. If anyone disagrees, just pop it back on there. It still needs some work and TLC. Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} 02:39, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

Merge

I added a "mergeto" template with the article Juicing fish. That article is more thorough, and though it mentions manipulating hormones to change fishes' colors, it seems to exclusively treat the practice of dying or painting fish. It's more thorough than this article, although I think it should be renamed -- so I'm proposing Painted fish's content be merged into Juicing fish, but that the article use the name Painted fish, which is less colloquial. --Ginkgo100 03:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Although I got no feedback, I began merging the articles. --Ginkgo100 18:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hormones

It has been rumoured on one aquarium website that some brightly coloured "male" fishes in dealer tanks may actually consist of both males and females treated with hormones so all the fish, males and females alike, show male breeding colours even out of breeding season.^[1]

I am removing this content due to a lack of reliable sources on the use of this method. One person posting a theory on usenet in 1995 is not a reliable source. Neil916 (Talk) 15:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

^ "Steroids and Livebearers". The Krib. Retrieved 2006-05-19.

[1] "Steroids and Livebearers". The Krib. Retrieved 2006-05-19.

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 I added a "mergeto" template with the article [[Juicing fish]]. That article is more thorough, and though it mentions manipulating hormones to change fishes' colors, it seems to exclusively treat the practice of dying or painting fish. It's more thorough than this article, although I think it should be renamed -- so I'm proposing [[Painted fish]]'s content be merged into [[Juicing fish]], but that the article use the name [[Painted fish]], which is less colloquial. --[[User:Ginkgo100|Ginkgo100]] 03:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 :Although I got no feedback, I began merging the articles. --[[User:Ginkgo100|Ginkgo100]] 18:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
+===Hormones===
+:''It has been rumoured on one aquarium website that some brightly coloured "male" fishes in dealer tanks may actually consist of both males and females treated with hormones so all the fish, males and females alike, show male breeding colours even out of breeding season.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/steroids.html#2 | title = Steroids and Livebearers | publisher = The Krib | accessdate = 2006-05-19 }}</ref>''
+I am removing this content due to a lack of reliable sources on the use of this method.  One person posting a theory on usenet in 1995 is not a reliable source.  [[User:Neil916|Neil916]] ([[User Talk:Neil916|Talk]]) 15:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)